Brian interviews Li Ting, Assistant Professor, David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, U of T. Last week she released fascinating information about ribbons of stars and galaxies attracted to but not part of the Milky Way Galaxy that she says shows how the Milky Way consumers other galaxies and grows but also given how the ribbons orbit around the center of the galaxy exhibit the presence of dark matter and / or a black hole. The conversation is fascinating.

Dr Ting is a NASA Hubble Fellowship Program Einstein Fellow and Carnegie-Princeton Fellow at Carnegie Observatories. Ting's research focuses on near-field cosmology. In particular, she studies the stars in the Milky Way Galaxy and nearby galaxies to understand how they form and to understand the nature of dark matter. She specializes in analyzing large data sets from imaging surveys of wide areas the sky and also performs traditional astronomical observations with optical and near-infrared telescopes.